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The Gordon Cook Foundation was set up in 1974 by Robert Charles Victor Cook (1897-1990) in memory of his mother, Victoria Gordon Cook.

The Foundation is managed by a Board of Trustees and is dedicated to the advancement and promotion of all aspects of education and training which are likely to promote "character development" and "citizenship". In recent years, the Foundation has adopted the term Values Education to denote the wide range of activity it seeks to support. These include:

• the promotion of good citizenship in its widest terms
• the promotion of Health Education as it relates to Values Education
• supporting relevant aspects of moral and religious education
Helping parents, teachers and others to enhance the personal development of pupils and young people
• supporting developments in school curriculum subjects that relate to Values Education
• helping pupils and young people to develop commitment to the value of work, industry and enterprise generally
• disseminating the significant results of relevant research and development.

The Foundation has no affiliation of any kind with any religious, political or social society or movement.

Institute for Global Ethics - Founded in 1990, the Institute for Global Ethics (IGE) is an independent, nonsectarian, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting ethical action in a global context. The Institute's challenge is to explore the global common ground of values, elevate awareness of ethics, and provide practical tools for making ethical decisions.

citizED is an organisation funded by the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA). It is a collaboration within higher education for all providers of initial teacher education in England.

citizED is organised principally around teacher education in primary, secondary, cross curricular, post 16 and community involvement contexts with outputs in the form of conferences, seminars, workshops, research papers and practical resources for teaching. citizED is promoting a number of specific research initiatives, including work on assessment in teacher education for citizenship. An international journal of citizenship and teacher education was launched by citizED in July 2005. citizED is working in partnership with a wide variety of individuals and organisations including the Association for Citizenship Teaching (ACT).

The Citizenship Foundation is an independent charity which aims to empower individuals to engage in the wider community through education about the law, democracy and society.

HTI - a not-for-profit social enterprise working in partnership with business, education and government to enhance leadership, and the employability of young people.

Living Values Education Program (LVEP) is a comprehensive values education program. This innovative global character education program offers a wide variety of experiential values activities and practical methodologies to educators, facilitators, parents and caregivers that enable children and young adults to explore and develop twelve universal values. In addition to programs for classrooms and parent groups, LVEP offers special materials for street children, children affected by war, and children affected by earthquakes.

In 74 countries at over 7,000 sites, educators implementing LVEP report positive changes in teacher-student relationships and in student-student relationships both inside and outside the classroom. Educators note an increase in respect, caring, cooperation, motivation, and the ability to solve peer conflicts on the part of the students. Aggressive behaviors decline as positive social skills and respect increase. LVEP helps educators create safe, caring values-based atmospheres for quality learning.

The Ammerdown Centre is an open Christian community dedicated to peace, reconciliation and renewal which provides a programme of opportunities for study, mutual learning and the chance to hear and absorb new ideas and insights.

It makes this provision within a secure, welcoming and prayerful atmosphere which is rooted in, and promotes, mutual respect regardless of belief. It is intended that residents and visitors should find an openness to all faiths, be able to renew and develop their own personal faithfulness and have the opportunity to appreciate the natural surroundings.

In addition to its own programme of events and courses, the Ammerdown Centre welcomes groups of all walks of life which hire its facilities for their own events and courses.

St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School is a Christian Community committed to excellence. The only Church of England Voluntary Aided Secondary School in the city and diocese of Bristol, its last government inspection described it as "an outstanding Church of England School" where "the quality of Christian concern for staff and students is remarkable".

"Our past, present and future success is rooted firmly in our Christian ethos. Each member of our school community is created by God and our aim is to achieve our full potential. All we do is rooted in this Hope of who we are as people and who we can become.

'Steadfast in faith' we aim to rise above the ordinary by developing education which can transform lives and communities. Inspired by our faith in Christ and together with our parents, churches and communities, we aim for each person to reach their full potential in body, mind, heart and soul. Our teaching will foster an understanding of human society and the worth and dignity of human beings, so that everyone in our community will be cared for unconditionally and valued equally. Our students will be characterised by their personal understanding of faith, love of learning and striving to fulfil their own potential."

Jackie Hoskins and Georgina Hall started Study Gym with their first clients in April 2007. The inspiration for it came from years of trying to encourage students to study at home, but awareness that there was often nobody at home who knew how to help. When they retired Georgina and Jackie recognised that they wanted to do something with their time other than 'lunch out', and so they developed the idea for Study Gym.